Richert: Trouble w/Library Porn Bill

We can’t define obscenity, as former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart famously suggested, but we know it when we see it. And no matter how we personally define obscenity, we don’t want to see it on a public library computer monitor, in plain view and more or less at a child’s eye level. Right? That’s why it’s difficult to fault the intention of Idaho lawmakers who want libraries to block Internet porn. But the bill, which sailed through the House Monday, imposes a vague and unfunded mandate on the state’s libraries. The bill would force all publicly funded libraries into the content-filtering business — regardless of whether they have the resources, and regardless of whether they even have a problem/ Kevin Richert , Idaho Statesman. More here .

Question: Do you know what pornography is when you see it?